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Vidyanand Choudhary was appointed to
the Editorial Board of Information Systems Research
as Associate Editor, effective January, 1, 2009.
Vidyanand Choudhary will serve as
Track Chair for the Pacific Asia Conference on Information
Systems (PACIS), Hyderabad, India, July 10-12, 2009.
Imran Currim was the recipient of
the 2008 “Excellence in Teaching Award,"
from the Fully Employed MBA Program. He was appointed
Associate Dean for the Masters Program at the Merage
School of Business.
Jason Dedrick and Kenneth
L. Kraemer were featured in BusinessWeek: “How
Many U.S. Jobs Does the Apple iPod Create?” December
12, 2008.
There has been considerable media attention from the
IM Study by James Danziger and Kelly
Garrett. This included articles in The New
York Times (June 2008), the Boston Globe (June 2008)
and an interview on the Brian Lehrer Show (June 2008).
Sanjeev Dewan served as Track Chair
at the International Conference on Information Systems
held in Paris, France in December 2008. He will be a
Program Chair for the Pacific Asia Conference on Information
Systems, which will be held in Hyderabad, India, July
10-12, 2009.
Sanjeev Dewan received a service award
from INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and
Management Sciences) for his five year service as senior
editor at Information Systems Research. He also received
a Certificate of Appreciation from Management Science
for continuing service on its editorial board.
In April 2008, Paul Dourish was elected
to the CHI Academy, a group of individuals honored by
the ACM special interest group on computer-human interaction
for their contributions to CHI research.
Paul Gray is on the Board of Advisors
for AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interactions
(2009).
Vijay Gurbaxani was quoted in India
Knowledge at Wharton on May 29, 2008: “Now That
the MTN Merger Deal Has Collapsed, What's Next for Bharti
Airtel?”
Vijay Gurbaxani is now serving as
Editor of MIS Quarterly and continues to serve on the
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation.
Vijay Gurbaxani, Kiron Ravindran
and Anjana Susarla received the 2008 Microsoft
Paper Award for research on the social network structures
of software development, based on their paper “Social
Networks and Contract Enforcement in IT Outsourcing.”
Kenneth L. Kraemer and Paul
Tallon received a Best Publication of the Year
award from the senior IS scholars at the ICIS meeting
in Paris in December '08. Their paper "Fact or
Fiction? A Sensemaking Perspective on the Reality Behind
Executives' Perceptions of IT Business Value" appeared
in the Journal of MIS in 2007.
Gloria Mark’s two studies “No
Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented
Work” and “The Cost of Interrupted Work:
More Speed and Stress” were cited in the New York
Times article – “Shortcuts: Multitasking
Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus,” October 25,
2008.
Don Patterson participated on a panel
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring
Symposium 2009: “Resources for Research on Large-Scale
Human Behavior Modeling: Opportunities and Challenges.”
James Pick received the University
Faculty Honors Award for Outstanding Research and Creative
Activity from the University of Redlands, June, 2008.
Bill Tomlinson was awarded a 2008
Sloan Research Fellowship. He is among 118 scientists
at 64 colleges and universities to receive the honor
this year. The program supports the work of exceptional
young researchers in a variety of fields, including
physics, computer science, economics and mathematics.
Bill Tomlinson, Lindsey Richland and
Eric Baumer won a two-year, $200,000 CreativeIT grant
from the National Science Foundation to develop and
test a text-mining tool that can automatically identify
metaphors in manuscripts.
Bill Tomlinson presented his study
“Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity
of Blogging” at the ACM Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Media attention included
articles in the Washington Post (4/16/08), the Wall
Street Journal (4/15/08), the Economic Times, India
(4/10/08) and CBC News (4/9/08).
Alladi Venkatesh was one of thirty-five
of the world's leading academic experts in multichannel
marketing that participated in the Thought Leadership
Conference in January 2009 at the Center for Retailing
Studies at Texas A & M. Teams identified solutions
to several major problems faced by retailers today,
and outcome papers from the conference will be published
in a special edition of the Journal of Interactive Marketing.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Shivendu
Shivendu from The Paul Merage School of Business
at UC Irvine has joined CRITO as a Faculty Associate.
Professor Shivendu is an accomplished researcher in
the areas of economics of information systems, digital
goods supply chain, forecasting and analytical modeling.
His research focuses on the confluence of technology,
economics and public policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics
from the University of Southern California where he
also earned his Master of Arts in Economics. Please
join us in welcoming Professor Shivendu.
Lauren Louie has joined CRITO as a
staff research associate. She is working with Alladi
Venkatesh on his research on computers in the home.
In the Fall she will start the PhD program at the Paul
Merage School of Business. Please join us in welcoming
and congratulating her!
Jennifer Yu has joined the CRITO team
as an undergraduate research assistant. She is working
with Kenneth Kraemer and Jason Dedrick on their research
on offshoring.
Paul Tallon has joined the Sellinger
School of Business and Management at Loyola College,
Maryland, as an Associate Professor of Information Systems.
Steven Chen will be an assistant
professor of Marketing at California State University
Fullerton beginning in August. His advisor is Alladi
Venkatesh, and his dissertation is titled Worlds of
Design: Design Values, Design Orientation, and Problem
Solving. Congratulations Steven!
Jui Ramaprasad will be joining the
faculty at McGill University this summer. Her advisor
is Sanjeev Dewan, and her dissertation is titled Online
Social Influence and Consumer Choice: Evidence from
the Music Industry. Congratulations Jui!
We were fortunate to have Heli Paavola
as a Visiting Researcher from the University of Tampere
earlier this year. She collaborated with Alladi Venkatesh
and recently returned to Finland.
Stella Ly, CRITO’s financial
analyst, completed her MBA from Cal State University
Fullerton. Congratulations Stella!
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